Born in Sacramento in 1979 and now living and working in Chicago, Noelle Allen has exhibited her artwork across the United States and abroad in Italy and Germany. Allen’s art has been positively reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, Art Ltd. Magazine, and Chicago Social to name a few, and has had catalogues of her work published by the University of Pennsylvania and Paula Cooper Gallery. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Allen has been awarded a number of grants through Dominican University where she is an Associate Professor of Sculpture, and has been a visiting artist at Indiana Wesleyan University, Mills College, and DePauw University.
Noelle Allen creates experimental, interdisciplinary sculpture that moves fluidly between different media and processes. A process-driven artist, Allen makes her own clays and plaster amalgams in the studio and has developed distinctive mold making techniques with materials as diverse as sand, alginate, and latex. Her work explores the body and the life-giving body as document, and its inherent possibilities and physical and psychological limitations. While the forms reference molecular structures, botanical forms, and medical models, they do not mimic the organic; instead the work relies on an aesthetic of fantasy to resist definition.
Selected solo exhibitions include Noelle Allen, Furman University, Greenville, SC (2014); Osmia, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL (2014), Sender, Channel, Receiver, Source, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN (2012); Trellis, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (2012); Lattice and Tension, Gallery Uno, Chicago, IL (2008); and Noelle Allen, UBS 12x12 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2007).
Selected group exhibitions include Murmurings, Design Cloud, Chicago, IL (2014); November, The Franklin, Chicago, IL (2013); The Celestial, Terrestrial and the Imagined In-Between, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL (2013); Natural Fallacy, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL (2013); Flay, Azimuth Projects, Chicago, IL; Koffer Kunste, Hamburg, Germany (2012); Alumni, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL (2010).
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